Revisiting the 60th Anniversary of the South African Communist Party
“We must demonstrate with particular force that no amount of political and ideological subversion on the part of our enemies and their apologists will ever weaken the revolutionary alliance of the ANC and SACP”. African National Congress Secretary-General, Alfred Nzo.
On 30 July 1981, the South African Communist Party (SACP) organised a meeting in London to celebrate its 60th anniversary. Chairing the meeting SACP Chairperson, Yusuf Dadoo, and solidarity messages were given by the General Secretaries Gordon McLennan and Michael O’Riordan of the British and Irish Communist Parties respectively, with a keynote address on behalf of the SACP being given by the General Secretary, Moses Mabhida.
According to Mabhida, “Our Party’s with the ANC is based on mutual trust, reciprocity, comradeship in battle and a common strategy for national liberation. Our unity of aims and methods of struggle are a rare instance of positive alignments between the forces of class struggle and national liberation. … Ours was the first Marxist-Leninist Party in Africa. At that time and now the Party has had to grapple with the complexities of the national liberation struggle in our country. Our role in the present phase of the national liberation struggle in our country is to identify ourselves with the struggle waged by our people led by the African National Congress, for a National Democratic Revolution. On these
